Served as Product Owner for the Supplier Portal, consistently delivering value to stakeholders.Integrated financial health metrics and ESG scorecards, providing interactive views for both external and internal personas to meet business needs.Enhanced project visibility by implementing dashboards and reporting tools for real-time progress monitoring.Facilitated smooth project transitions by ensuring thorough documentation and effective handovers.Monitored project progress, identified risks, and implemented corrective actions to maintain project alignment and success.

Led the transformation project to automate the supplier onboarding process and manage migration to Ariba.Acted as Subject Matter Expert (SME) and process owner for supplier onboarding, surveys, and reporting.Managed supply chain operations for end-to-end cost management and Value Engineering Management (VEMT).

Collaborated with cross-functional global teams to achieve goals and timelines for quarterly quoting activities across ASICS, PLD, OPTICS, and Specialty Technology commodities, managing RFQ spend of $450M per quarter.Acted as a risk manager for the APJC region, monitoring supply chain risks, assessing impacts, and driving mitigation plans.Supported the new product development process by working closely with product engineering to establish clear sourcing strategies and evaluate potential suppliers.Coordinated the transition of components and products to ensure uninterrupted supply to customers.Interfaced with Supplier Quality Engineering to ensure supplier quality performance meets or exceeds targets.

Component Engineering Support (NPI and Sustaining): Provide component level expertise thru out the entire NPI design cycle to Design Engineers through performing BOM Risk analysis, identify risk parts, draft mitigation plan for all single source parts before it gets transition to production. Involve early in NPI Projects, understand clearly the main cost drivers to plan for any early cost reduction/cost avoidance. Monitoring & maintaining life cycle status of parts to support product sustaining. Monitoring manufacture technical changes, RoHS/ RoHS-II/ REACH compliances, UL & other Regulatory requirements, etc. Product Lifecycle Management: Support product Management team by regularly monitoring health check on customer specific product BOMs. Communicate the risk analysis to the Business heads. Provide solution to mitigate any obsolescence issue. Co-Ordinate & escalate critical Last Time Buy parts to ensure long term support to the customers. Component Life Cycle Support: Effectively engage with supply chain & ensure no shortages & lead-time issues for proto & production. Address any line down situations due to obsolescence issues by working proactively with component manufacturers and product teams and by monitoring Component life cycle status. Explore alternate sources for critical single source components & influence sourcing decisions to achieve supply chain alignment. Deflation Support: Supported business in cost reduction of Products by exploring various deflation opportunities thru exploring alternate sources.RoHS/REACH Support: Lead a significant role in validating electronic components for RoHS compliance. Established a comprehensive data base in Agile-PLM by data-mining RoHS compliance status, exemption details & material disclosures per EU Directives.

Lead a team of 3 Componenet Engineers managing Obolescence, Alternatesourcing and ROHS conversion of products.